• i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 months ago

    So for the folks that call lemon-lime soda “lemonade” (instead of the non-carbonated drink consisting of water, sugar, and lemon juice), is the idiom “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade” just not a thing? Or is it an idiom that is in use but it just doesn’t really make a whole lot of sense?

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      11 months ago

      That idiom only exists in media from the USA. I heard that idiom for the first time in Portal2.

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        11 months ago

        Don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

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      11 months ago

      I mean you still need lemons to make “lemon soda” as you call it.